The Old Vicarage
THE OLD VICARAGE, PALMER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284652
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, PALMER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284652
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, PALMER STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, PALMER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Walsham-le-Willows
- National Grid Reference:
- TM0038270661
Details
TM 07 SW
3/57
WALSHAM LE WILLOWS
PALMER STREET
The Old Vicarage
II
House, used at one time as the Vicarage, but not purpose-built. Early to mid
C16. Timber-framed and rendered, red brick gable ends, old plaintiled roof.
2 storeys; 2-cell end-chimney plan. The original stack on the right, set
within the frame, has a plain rectangular shaft of old brick on a rendered
base; the associated gable end is in Tudor brick with diaperwork in blue
headers, a small original slit window to the upper floor, a circular window to
the ground floor; later buttressing. A small single-storey extension with
hipped roof attached to this gable end has 3 cross windows. A later external
stack on the left, also with a plain shaft. Modillion cornice, plain
bargeboards. 3 windows to upper floor: one 2-light, 2 3-light, all old
casements with a horizontal bar to lights. On the ground floor, a 4-light
casement window with transome to the right of the door, and to the left a
half-glazed French door with 2 leaves; a small-paned single-light window
beside the plank entrance door. Open C20 rustic porch. Interior with good
framing exposed: close studding, main ceiling-beams with very large chamfer;
cambered tie-beams with long arched braces to the upper floor. Reconstructed
fireplaces. Remains of 2 doorways in the internal partition wall, but no
evidence for a typical service division into 2 on the left. Roof, which may
originally have been hipped on the left, with plain queen-posts, arched braced
to the collars and arcade plates; intermediate collars between trusses.
Listing NGR: TM0038270661
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281802
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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